Liverpool East Toxteth (UK Parliament constituency)

Liverpool East Toxteth was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Liverpool East Toxteth
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Seats	one
Created from	Liverpool
Replaced by	Liverpool Toxteth, Liverpool Garston and Liverpool Exchange

Boundaries

1885–1918: Part of the civil parish of Toxteth.

1918–1950: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Aigburth, Granby, Sefton Park East, and Sefton Park West.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member[1]	Party[2][3]
	1885	Henry de Worms	Conservative
	1895	Augustus Frederick Warr	Conservative
	1902	Austin Taylor	Conservative
	1906		Liberal
	1910	Edward Marshall Hall	Conservative
	1916	James Stuart Rankin	Conservative
	1924	Albert Jacob	Unionist
	1929	Henry Mond	Conservative
	1931	Patrick Buchan-Hepburn	Conservative
	1950	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Bigham

General election 1885: Liverpool East Toxteth ^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry de Worms	3,598	58.0
	Liberal	John Bigham	2,608	42.0
Majority			990	16.0
Turnout			6,206	77.5
Registered electors			8,003
	Conservative win (new seat)

de Worms

General election 1886: Liverpool East Toxteth ^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry de Worms	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Liverpool East Toxteth ^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry de Worms	3,708	62.8	N/A
	Liberal	Edward Paull	2,201	37.2	New
Majority			1,507	25.6	N/A
Turnout			5,909	69.2	N/A
Registered electors			8,544
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1895: Liverpool East Toxteth ^[4][5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry de Worms	3,628	68.0	+5.2
	Liberal	Climenson Yelverton Charles Dawbarn	1,706	32.0	−5.2
Majority			1,922	36.0	+10.4
Turnout			5,334	61.8	−7.4
Registered electors			8,627
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.2

1895 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election^[4][5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Augustus Frederick Warr	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Liverpool East Toxteth ^[4][5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Augustus Frederick Warr	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

1902 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Austin Taylor	3,610	52.8	N/A
	Liberal	Herbert R. Rathbone	3,233	47.2	New
Majority			377	5.6	N/A
Turnout			6,843	72.1	N/A
Registered electors			9,485
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1906: Liverpool East Toxteth ^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Austin Taylor	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Liverpool East Toxteth ^[4][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Marshall Hall	4,037	51.8	N/A
	Liberal	John Lea	3,752	48.2	New
Majority			285	3.6	N/A
Turnout			7,789	81.9	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election December 1910: Liverpool East Toxteth ^[4][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Marshall Hall	4,087	56.7	+4.9
	Liberal	Clive Bigham	3,121	43.3	−4.9
Majority			966	13.4	+9.8
Turnout			7,206	75.8	−6.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.9

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Unionist: James Stuart Rankin
• Liberal: John Lea ^[9]

1916 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	James Stuart Rankin	Unopposed
	Unionist hold

General election 1918: Liverpool East Toxteth^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	James Stuart Rankin	Unopposed
	Unionist hold
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

Rathbone

General election 1922: Liverpool East Toxteth^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	James Stuart Rankin	15,149	60.3	N/A
	Independent	Eleanor Rathbone*	9,984	39.7	New
Majority			5,165	20.6	N/A
Turnout			25,133	74.2	N/A
	Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

* Rathbone was a member of Liverpool City Council at the time of the election, and received support from the local Liberal association and the Women's Citizenship Association.

1923 general election: Liverpool East Toxteth ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	James Stuart Rankin	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Unionist hold

1924 general election: Liverpool East Toxteth^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Albert Jacob	16,139	59.9	N/A
	Labour	Charles Burden	6,620	24.6	New
	Liberal	Frederick Bowring [11]	4,163	15.5	New
Majority			9,519	35.3	N/A
Turnout			36,441	76.4	N/A
	Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

1929 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Henry Mond	9,462	43.2	−16.7
	Labour	Joseph Cleary	6,563	29.2	+4.6
	Liberal	Aled Roberts	6,206	27.6	+12.1
Majority			3,129	14.0	−19.3
Turnout			22,641	61.7	−14.7
	Unionist hold		Swing	-10.7

General election 1929: Liverpool East Toxteth ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Henry Mond	17,678	47.9	+4.7
	Labour	Joseph Cleary	9,904	26.9	−2.3
	Liberal	Aled Roberts	9,287	25.2	−2.4
Majority			7,774	21.0	+7.0
Turnout			36,869	75.5	+13.8
	Unionist hold		Swing	+4.5

Elections in the 1930s

1931 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Buchan-Hepburn	17,040	75.4	+27.5
	Labour	Charles Burden	5,550	24.6	―2.3
Majority			11,490	50.8	+29.8
Turnout			22,590	45.6	―29.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	+14.9

General election 1931: Liverpool East Toxteth^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Buchan-Hepburn	28,187	75.6	+0.2
	Liberal	Alfred Samuel Doran	9,093	24.4	New
Majority			19,094	51.2	+0.4
Turnout			37,280	74.0	+28.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1935: Liverpool East Toxteth^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Buchan-Hepburn	20,638	60.2	―15.4
	Liberal	Arthur Donald Dennis	13,622	39.8	+15.4
Majority			7,016	20.4	―30.8
Turnout			34,260	65.2	―8.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	―15.4

General Election 1939–40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Patrick Buchan-Hepburn
• Liberal: Lyon Blease^[12]

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Liverpool East Toxteth^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Buchan-Hepburn	18,145	49.3	―10.9
	Labour	Victor Harold Edgar Baker	12,376	33.6	New
	Liberal	Lyon Blease	6,286	17.1	―22.7
Majority			5,769	15.7	―4.7
Turnout			36,807	70.1	+4.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
2. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1989]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 139. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
3. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 173. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
4. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
5. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
6. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
7. The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 170 (194 in web page)
8. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
9. Lincolnshire Echo 9 May 1914
10. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
11. ‘BOWRING, Sir Frederick Charles’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 5 Oct 2017
12. The Liberal Magazine, 1939